AGOURA HILLS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--THQ Inc. (NASDAQ:THQI) and the Random House Publishing Group today
announced that a novel set in the Homefront universe and
co-written by John Milius (Red Dawn and Oscar Award-winning Apocalypse
Now) and New York Times bestselling author Raymond Benson
(author of two Metal Gear Solid books and multiple James Bond
novels) will be published by Random House’s Del Rey imprint, and arrive
in early 2011 to coincide with the release of the first Homefront
game.

“We’re delighted to confirm the first element of what will become a vast
transmedia strategy for Homefront,” said Danny Bilson, Executive
Vice President - Core Games, THQ. “John Milius has already worked with
us extensively on the Homefront game, and we’re thrilled to have
him and Raymond on board as we develop our near-future world into other
types of media. Random House is a great partner to help us reach an even
broader audience.”

“Homefront represents a fascinating vision of the near future,”
added John Milius. “After completing my work on the game, it became
clear that there were many more stories to tell, and this book will
offer a chilling look at this near-future world.”

Homefront the videogame is a thrilling first person shooter set
for release on the Xbox 360® video game and entertainment
system, PlayStation®3 computer entertainment system and
Windows PC in March 2011. It tells the story of a stricken America,
fallen to savage military occupation in the year 2027.

The year is 2027. Her infrastructure shattered and military in disarray,
America has fallen to a savage occupation by the nuclear armed Greater
Korean Republic.

Abandoned by her former allies, the United States is a bleak landscape
of walled towns and abandoned suburbs. This is a police state where high
school stadiums have become detention centers, and shopping malls
shelter armored attack vehicles.

Join the Resistance, stand united and fight for freedom against an
overwhelming military force in Homefront’s gripping, cinematic
single-player campaign, and experience epic, groundbreaking multiplayer
action all set in a terrifyingly plausible near-future world.

About THQ

THQ Inc. is a leading worldwide developer and publisher of interactive
entertainment software. The company develops its products for all
popular game systems, personal computers and wireless devices.
Headquartered in Los Angeles County, California, THQ sells product
through its global network of offices located throughout North America,
Europe and Asia Pacific. More information about THQ and its products may
be found at http://www.thq.com.
THQ, Homefront and the THQ logo are trademarks and/or registered
trademarks of THQ Inc.

About the Random House Publishing Group

The flagship imprint of Random House, Inc., the Random House Publishing
Group had its origins in 1925 when Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer, two
New Yorkers in their mid-twenties, acquired a line of classics and
contemporary American works called The Modern Library from publisher
Horace Liveright. The company assumed the name Random House two years
later, in 1927, when Cerf and Klopfer decided to publish a few books on
the side, "at random." Their artist friend Rockwell Kent drew his now
celebrated logo of a random house, which made its debut in February
l927. Among the first titles of the new imprint were limited editions
illustrated by Kent of Voltaire's Candide and Melville's Moby
Dick.

Del Rey Books (http://www.delreybooks.com)
was founded in 1977 as an imprint of Ballantine Books, a division of the
Random House Publishing Group, under the guidance of the renowned
Judy-Lynn del Rey and her husband, Lester del Rey. Del Rey publishes the
best of modern fantasy, science fiction, and alternate history.

About John Milius

After winning a National Student Film Festival award while attending
USC, John Milius began his studio career working for Roger Corman
writing Devil’s Eight followed by Evel Knievel. John
Milius wrote the screenplay of Apocalypse Now. His other credits
include Dirty Harry, Magnum Force, Big Wednesday, Conan the Barbarian,
Red Dawn,Clear and Present Danger, The Hunt for Red October,
The Wind and the Lion, Farewell to the King, Jeremiah Johnson, Judge Roy
Bean, Geronimo and Flight of the Intruder.

Milius later wrote the teleplay, Rough Riders, through which he
was instrumental in causing President Theodore Roosevelt to be
posthumously awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for his action on
San Juan Hill.

John Milius created and produced the TV series Rome for HBO.

Currently John Milius will be directing in 2011 a feature film from an
original script on the life of Genghis Khan.

He is producing a cable TV series with Canal Plus, “Pharaohs,” set
during the New Kingdom, the first twelve episodes to begin production in
Egypt and Syria in 2011.

In the American Film Institute’s “100 Years of Film, 100 Movie Quotes,”
John Milius had two quotes cited; one from Apocalypse
Now, the other from Dirty Harry. In the Writer’s Guild of
America’s “101 Greatest Screenplays,” John Milius’ Apocalypse Now
is honored as well.

About Raymond Benson

Among his 22 published books, Raymond Benson wrote six original James
Bond novels, three film novelizations, and three short stories — all
published worldwide. Three 007 titles each are collected in the recent
anthologies Choice of Weapons and The Union Trilogy.

As “David Michaels” Raymond wrote the first two NY Times best-selling
books in the Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell series. Raymond is also
the author of two Metal Gear Solid novelizations and the
upcoming pulp adventure Hunt Through Napoleon’s Web. His
series of “rock ‘n’ roll thrillers” include Dark Side of the Morgue
and A Hard Day’s Death.

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